Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry, I don't have the numbers specifically for the groups of five applications for south Asia, but I can provide the information to the committee that our processing times generally for privately sponsored refugees—those sponsored by sponsorship agreement holders, as well a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We can provide that number to the committee. I don't have it with me today.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It has been noted.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would have to get the number for you, but the testimony before the committee in previous appearances has been that it is typically around 900 to 1,000 cases annually.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, Mr. Chair, these kinds of services were planned for and were put in place and were ready. One of the cases was discussed at committee and another case was reported in Chatelaine magazine, and we've looked in depth in relation to those cases. We believe the narrative around t

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, I can indicate that three different components are causing the increased costs for the interim federal health program. One is the increased intake of asylum seekers in Canada. Second is the increasing number of resettled refugees to Canada and the interim federal hea

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The concept of mitigation plans came into play after the Supreme Court of Canada decision in 2005, called Hilewitz and De Jong, in which the two individual applicants wanted to present evidence of how they could mitigate the cost of special education, in one example. The Supreme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's really hard to tell if they're achieving their purpose, because we don't track or monitor them after the fact. As I said the last time I was here before this committee on this study, we don't have any enforcement mechanisms possible to see whether or not someone has actually

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead, Michael.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. Our medical officers aren't treating anyone. It's the material provided to us that says, “here are the medications the individual is currently taking for their conditions”—for example, for HIV or renal failure or whatever—and then we cost against those medications as they hav

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I already spoke about the cases that end up getting approved on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. Ninety-one per cent of folks who have asked for that after a finding of excessive demand have been successful in being granted visas. On the side of the mitigation plan, you'll

Citizenship and Immigration committee  This is the treating physician of the individual.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In the material we presented to the committee, Mr. Chair, under the undertakings from our last appearance—specifically, undertaking number 15—we provided statistics to the committee that looked at immigration medical exams from 2013 to 2016: 224 people applied for humanitarian an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The interim federal health, in particular...?